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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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How collaboration can help grow and transform agriculture in Africa
16.05.18It’s been four years since African leaders met in Equatorial Guinea to commit themselves to…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
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Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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Bangladesh Government honors former IRRI Agronomist Dr. Md. M Abdul Mazid for contributions to Bangladeshi food security
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dhaka, Bangladesh—25 March 2018—The government presented the “Swadhinata Padak 2018” award t…
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Oil palm for the people
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent…
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GLF summit: Leveraging investment portfolios to manage sustainable landscapes
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Environmental health
More than 900,000 people living off the electrical grid now have improved access to renewable…
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Ivorian seed producers trained in quality rice seed production at AfricaRice M’bé Research Station
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Biodiversity
About 30 Ivorian seed producers participated in a training workshop organized by the Food and…
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Canadian perspectives on the 2018 GFPR: Building women’s empowerment and food security
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Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “To achieve gender equality, we need to address social and economic power…
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How drone-assisted breeding can help stop rice hoja blanca disease
15.05.18CIAT and FLAR are collaborating to breed more rice varieties that are highly resistant to…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
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Environmental health
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari villag…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in…
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Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global…
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FISH agrees long-term collaboration with India
14.05.18The CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) has signed an agreement with the…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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Transfer programs, child nutrition, and intimate partner violence
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for…
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2018 Global Report on Food Crises shows rising food insecurity, need to build resilience
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Food security
BY SARA GUSTAFSON In 2017, an estimated 124 million people faced crisis-level food insecurity or…
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Strategic investments and Scientific Award announcements mark ICRISAT’s 84th Board Meeting
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The announcement of new strategic investments for research, marked the 84th meeting of ICRISAT’s G…
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